- Date
- March 12, 1989, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Olive Branch, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4948HCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890312003679A
- Case key
- 32409
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. The crosswind and ditch were contributing factors.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
While landing with a crosswind, the student plt lost control of the acft during the roll-out. Subsequently, the acft went off the rwy, hit a ditch & nosed over. No pre-acdnt part failure or malfunction was rprtd.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4948H
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284041
- Airframe hours
- 5,507
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Metro Flying School & Club
- Registered owner
- A & M Aircraft Leasing, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 20, 1989 · 92 hours before
- Airport
- OLV · Olive Branch, runway 36, 5,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 41 total · 37 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MEM, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.